Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Josephine Baker, expatriate American whose bouncy scorchdancing made her the rich brown toast of Paris musicomedy for years, got ready for her third marriage. Husband No. I had been a Negro tap dancer, No. 2 a wealthy French manufacturer. No. 3-to-be: Jo Bouillon, top-ranking white French jazz bandsman...
...smoky, crowded joint on Chicago's brassy Randolph Street, came hard, driving music. One old connoisseur who heard it stopped in his tracks and said, "My God. it's Bix." But the sign in the window said Jimmy MacPartland. It was Jimmy playing the golden cornet that Jazz Immortal Bix Beiderbecke had given him years...
Jimmy was 40 now but looked 30. On a stage stuck up behind the bar Jimmy drove out Jazz Me Blues and Nobody's Sweetheart in the same hard, terse, middle-range phrases that Chicago jazz fans had first heard...
...Orleans Jazz (Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band; Columbia, 8 sides). Strictly for New Orleans fans, this album includes barrelhouse (Bucket Got a Hole in It), stomp, blues and a shouting version of Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho. Trombonist Ory sings two numbers in Creole French. The ensemble includes Barney Bigard on the clarinet. Performance: good...
Clarinetist Joe Pamelia '46, winner of a college-wide jazz competition in 1946, and Bill Tager '50, on the saxophone, form the wind section. Bass, drums, and piano round out the sextet...